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One of The Livewire BBS PCBoard(TM) multi-BBS Doorware programs.
Supporting PCBoard, Wildcat!, Gap, QBBS, RBBS,
Remote Access, SpitFire, WWIV and others.
By
Richard Paquette
PO Box 416
Mt. Laurel, NJ 08054
(C) Copyright 1990
All Rights Reserved
DOOR DESCRIPTION!
If you have ever watched Jeopardy on television, then you will have a very
good idea what FACTS is all about.. when you first enter the door, the main
menu allows you:
1. Play the GAME OF FACTS
2. Get Instructions/Help
3. View Scoreboard
4. Color On/Off
Q. Return to BBS
1. Play the GAME OF FACTS brings you to a full page category menu with the
categories listed across the top line. When you select a category number, it
then prompts for the amount to win which are listed vertically. After you have
selected the amount, the answer is displayed with a prompt for the question.
You enter the question, if correct, then you score is updated with the
amount you selected, if wrong, no score is given nor is the amount taken from
your current score.
If you play all 25 questions, you are then automatically brought to the
BONUS ROUND at which time you will be prompted to BET on the question. Your
bet can be anything from $1.00 to your TOTAL SCORE. If you win, you double
your bet and if you lose, you lose only your bet.
You are then brought to the main menu and cannot play again unless you
exit the door and re-enter it if your time online has more than 5 minutes
left. If not.. then you won't be allowed back in.
2. Get Instructions is similiar to these descriptions.
3. View Scoreboard will list your name according to the highest score first
and descending from there.
4. Color On/Off allows you to toggle your color on or off.
5. Returns you to the BBS.
FILES
The following files are packaged with this ZIP file
Facts.exe <--- executable program must be in directory at all times
Facts.cfg <--- sample configuration file, must have one for each node
Categor.eis <--- this file contains names of the categories in the directory
science.dat <--- one question and answer file, must be in directory
flowers.dat <--- another question and answer file, must be in directory
cities.dat <--- another question and answer file, must be in directory
capital.dat <--- another question and answer file, must be in directory
movies.dat <--- another question and answer file, must be in directory
facts.usr <--- created by program and MUST NOT BE DELETED
(this maintains the players names and scores)
order.frm <--- Order form for all Livewire Doors
facts.log <--- Will create if not present.. tracks callers in door
Categor.eis contains all the current categories in your directory that are
randomly selected and place in the game.. the more you have the better it is.
Each time someone opens the door, there will be different categories to get
selected and the program takes care of all the work for you. Please read the
important note to find out more...
IMPORTANT NOTE:
When this door is registered, you may download other *.dat files and add them
to your categor.eis file with the facts utility now being finished. Each of the
*.dat files has 50 questions and the questions are randomly selected so that
90% of the time, the same question will not appear twice in the same category
within the 5 dollar amounts.
Of course by registrating this door, you will have access to all the new
*.dat files being created and you will recieve an editor to add questions to
the existing *.dat files and also add new categories along with editing the
facts.usr file.
The Editor and other dat files are downloadable from The Livewire BBS, home
of FACTS.ZIP plus many other fine door products.
Other files already to go include subjects such as:
History, General, Flowers, Trees, Capitals, Cities, Trekie, Science plus many
more under construction, the initial file contains only 50 questions which you
can add to with your facts editing program.
Please be sure to register as soon as possible.. will ease your conscious and
allow you to have unlimited categories.
CONFIGURATION
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The registration number goes on line number 5
The option to reveal answers goes on line number 6 Y=yes N=no
The option to create a log file (facts.log) on line number 7 Y=yes N=no
NOTE: Leaving the lines (5-6-7) blank WILL create an error...
The following are just samples for different softwares...
Example configuration file for PCBOARD.SYS
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C:\PCB\PCBOARD.SYS <=- (Full pathname of your PCBOARD.SYS file)
The Livewire BBS <=- (Change this to your BBS name)
Richard <=- (The Sysop's first name)
Paquette <=- (The Sysop's last name)
Example configuration file for USERS.SYS
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C:\PCB\USERS.SYS <=- (Full pathname of your USERS.SYS file)
The Livewire BBS <=- (Change this to your BBS name)
Richard <=- (The Sysop's first name)
Paquette <=- (The Sysop's last name)
Example configuration file for DOOR.SYS
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C:\BBS\DOOR.SYS <=- (Full pathname of your DOOR.SYS file)
The Livewire BBS <=- (Change this to your BBS name)
Richard <=- (The Sysop's first name)
Paquette <=- (The Sysop's last name)
Example configuration file for USERINFO.DAT
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C:\BBS\USERINFO.DAT <=- (Full pathname of your USERINFO.DAT file)
The Livewire BBS <=- (Change this to your BBS name)
Richard <=- (The Sysop's first name)
Paquette <=- (The Sysop's last name)
NOTE: DOOR.SYS must be in the SAME directory as USERINFO.DAT
Example configuration file for CALLINFO.BBS
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C:\BBS\CALLINFO.BBS <=- (Full pathname of your CALLINFO.BBS file)
The Livewire BBS <=- (Change this to your BBS name)
Richard <=- (The Sysop's first name)
Paquette <=- (The Sysop's last name)
Example configuration file for DORINFOx.DEF
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C:\BBS\DORINFOx.DEF <=- (Full pathname of your DORINFOx.DEF file
where 'x' is the BBS Node number.
The Livewire BBS <=- (Change this to your BBS name)
Richard <=- (The Sysop's first name)
Paquette <=- (The Sysop's last name)
Example configuration file for SFDOORS.DAT
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C:\BBS\SFDOORS.DAT <=- (Full pathname of your SFDOORS.DAT file)
The Livewire BBS <=- (Change this to your BBS name)
Richard <=- (The Sysop's first name)
Paquette <=- (The Sysop's last name)
Example configuration file for CHAIN.TXT
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C:\BBS\CHAIN.TXT <=- (Full pathname of your CHAIN.TXT file)
The Livewire BBS <=- (Change this to your BBS name)
Richard <=- (The Sysop's first name)
Paquette <=- (The Sysop's last name)
Example configuration file for GTUSER.BBS
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C:\BBS\GTUSER.BBS <=- (Full pathname of your GTUSER.BBS file)
The Livewire BBS <=- (Change this to your BBS name)
Richard <=- (The Sysop's first name)
Paquette <=- (The Sysop's last name)
1 <=- (COM port number - defaults to 1)
1 <=- (Node number - defaults to 1)
123123 <=- (Registration Number)
Example configuration file for TRIBBS.SYS
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C:\BBS\TRIBBS.SYS <=- (Full pathname of your TRIBBS.SYS file)
The Livewire BBS <=- (Change this to your BBS name)
Richard <=- (The Sysop's first name)
Paquette <=- (The Sysop's last name)
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BATCH FILE
This is the batch file whose name is entered in PCBSETUP. It should reside in
your default PCB directory. Leave this as is except for changing the paths.
ECHO OFF
E:\
CD\FACTS
FACTS FACTS.CFG <--- Please read NOTE below
C:\
CD\PCB
BOARD
NOTE FOR FOSSIL DRIVER USERS:
Facts now includes support for FOSSIL drivers!!! This means your Doors
will work with Digiboard (e.g. Wildcat!'s M version) and other multi-port
boards. To activate the Fossil driver support, just include /FD on the
command line when running the Door. For example:
FACTS FACTS.CFG /FD
If no Fossil driver is available, Facts will display a message to that
effect and exit gracefully.
IMPORTANT NOTE FOR NON STANDARD IRQ's:
Supports COM 1 to 4 on the standard IRQ's
Com1/Com3 = IRQ4 and Com2/Com4 = IRQ3
You can make use of the IRQ environment variable
If you wish to use a non-standard IRQ, add the IRQ number after the
configuration filename. For example the program is STORE and you want to use
Com1 and IRQ5. The command line passed to your door would be:
STORE STORE.CFG /5
or
STORE STORE.CFG /%IRQ% using the environment variable
The /5 tells STORE to use IRQ5 rather than the standard IRQ4 that is
normally used with COM1. No /x parameter is needed for the standard IRQ's.
You can also make use of the PCBoard environment variables such as:
PCBDRIVE and PCBDIR. Or you can use your own for example, let's say that
your system runs on D: drive and your system directory is call GAP then
you could use the variables at the start of your batch file such as:
d:\
cd\doors\facts
set pcbdrive=d:
set pcbdir=\gap
facts facts.cfg
set pcbdrive =
set pcbdir =
d:\
cd\gap
gap
Then the first line in your cfg would look like this:
%PCBDRIVE%%PCBDIR\dorinfo.def
Sysop Keys
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F3 - Toggles the printer On/Off. Value is passed to PCBoard and/or
written to DOOR.SYS and USERS.SYS
F4 - Toggles the Page Bell on/off. Value is passed to PCBoard
and/or written to DOOR.SYS and USERS.SYS
F5 - DOS Shell. Allows SysOp to exit to DOS from inside a DOOR.
F7 - Toggles the Caller Alarm On/Off. Value is passed to PCBoard
and/or written to DOOR.SYS and USERS.SYS
F8 - Returns the caller involuntarily to the BBS.
F9 - Toggles the local display On/Off. Value is passed to PCBoard
and/or written to DOOR.SYS and USERS.SYS
F10 - Activates SysOp CHAT mode within the DOOR.
ESC - Deactivates CHAT mode. DOOR is resumed.
UP - Give the caller extra time while in the DOOR.
DN - Subtract time from the caller while in the DOOR.
HOME - HELP key for Status Line options.
ALT-N - SysOp next on toggle. Value passed to PCBoard. (PCBoard only)
ALT-X - PCBoard will exit after current caller logs off. Value is
passed to PCBoard. Not available on non-PCBoard systems.
WATCHDOG/CTTY/ANSI.SYS
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CTTY and WATCHDOG are not required and should not be used with
this program. FACTS contains its own communication routines
which monitor the COM port. If carrier is lost, it will return
to PCBoard where the BBS will log the user off the system.
ANSI.SYS, or something similar, is required for FACTS to
function properly!
DISTRIBUTION
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FACTS is COPYRIGHTED by Richard Paquette, with all rights reserved.
This program is being distributed via the SHAREWARE concept and as
such, may be copied freely with the following restrictions:
* The program must be supplied in it's original
unmodified form, including documentation.
* FACTS may not be distributed as part of any
commercial application or service without the
express, written consent of the author.
* Vendors of Shareware/Public Domain software may
not distribute this program without the express,
written consent of the author.
REGISTRATION
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FACTS represents many hours of programming and the author
deserves just compensation for his time, efforts and expertise.
If you find this program to be of some value and you continue
to use it on your BBS system, you must return the registration
form provided along with the registration fee. Registration
entitles you to free upgrades via modem from The Livewire's Support
Additional upgrades/support to the BBS are available at $35.00 per
year. Payments should be made in the form of a check or money order
(do NOT send cash!). Foreign orders must be in U.S. funds drawn on a
U.S. bank.
********** REGISTER ONLINE ***********
You may also call The Livewire BBS and register online via
Visa or Mastercard using our online Credit Card door which will
produce your registration number on the spot! At the main board
prompt just type REGISTER and presto..
Suggestions and/or comments may be sent to the address below or
via electronic mail:
Richard Paquette
The Livewire BBS
NET-HUB for RealLife(tm) Net
InterNet: Livewire@bbscd.com
FidoNet 1:266/36 PoliceNet 150:360/29
Public Access Node1: (609) 235-5297 HST
Free Access to Private Nodes after registering a door program.
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